Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if my life trajectory went slightly differently if I discovered them back in 2002 as well.
Love Gunship, been a fan since their eponymous album (though no such track yet, haha) and I've been listening to Unicorn pretty regularly since its release.
I haven't heard of Your Inland Empire, but I like their sound from the track you linked. I'll have to check out more of them.
I don't listen to The Midnight a lot, but they are what immediately come to mind for retrowave with vocals.
Since we've only discussed artists with vocalists, I'm not going to go too deep into non-vocalist solo artists but I love darksynth, so I gotta give shout outs to Pertubator and Carpenter Brut who are the goats of the genre and have several tracks with featured vocalists. And a much more obscure darksynth artist without vocals I am going to recommend is Orax's Love Kills the Demon as it emotionally vibes closer to TBM than a lot of other things for me.
A bit more mainstream, Shiny Toy Guns has some similar energy to TBM, more so on their first and third albums, though I guess they've been on hiatus for 10+ years now.
Let me know if any of this tickle your fancy. I didn't pick out any real goth stuff, but I should have been asleep hours ago, ha
Yeah, TBM is criminally underplayed. If they hadn't shown up on a Pandora station for me some 15 or so years ago, I don't know if or when I would have encountered them. Glad you're enjoying them! They have a really unique sound that scratches an itch in my brain that no one else really does.
I'd be happy to trade music recs as I'm big into retrowave and some goth as well.
This doesn't fit the prompt in a technical sense, but does so thematically:
The band originally known as Imagica changed their name due to overlap with another artist. For one week they went by Nothing and Nowhere (shared with their first album and a track that would appear on a later album) before settling on their current name, The Birthday Massacre. The Birthday Massacre was the original third track of the Nothing and Nowhere LP, but was renamed Happy Birthday during the band's final name change.
I switched over to NewPipe a couple weeks back after consciously tolerating ads on the official mobile apps for years. This is what pushed me over the edge:
I was watching a 30 minute video a friend had shared and a (skippable) 4 minute ad played probably a little before the 10 minute mark. It was a variant of an ad I had seen before, but I've been interested in the product, so I let the ad play all the way through. But now for the rest of the video, all the ads I was getting were several minutes long and all were unskippable. The interval of actual video content became shorter as well, so I was effectively watching more ads than the content I was trying to view. I decided to finish the video just to experience how ridiculous it was. Immediately installed NewPipe afterwards.
I have a hard time thinking it wasn't a coincidence that the ads became unskippable partway through the video after watching one ad all the way through. Obviously, I can't say that for sure. But I sure as hell am not tolerating that ratio of ads to content. I feel guilty for not sending ad view pennies to the creators I enjoy, but this YouTube "experiment" made the platform unusable for me.
I have no experience agriculture patents, but couldn't Monsanto make it illegal for someone to modify "their product" without their explicit permission?
They don't really make the STI at all anymore. Supposedly Japan will see a 4-door with the STI badge later this year (Sport#), but it sounds like it's really just a manual WRX.
There's demand for sure, but Subaru really doesn't seem to care at this point ☹️
Although the festival will not take place as an official event – and will not be promoted under its usual name on tourism platforms – officials expect visitor numbers to remain high when cherry blossoms bloom in April.
Preparations are underway to handle the influx, with officials planning to step up security and establish temporary car parks and portable toilet facilities to reduce pressure on neighbourhoods.
Siskiyou Pass is both the biggest change in elevation and steepest grade on I-5
the grass is literally greener on the OR side. CA is known for its golden grass that is much dryer (hence the Golden Gate. As a child I was disappointed that it is painted orange and not gold)
Agricultural Inspection Station mentioned in another comment (only when traveling into CA)
not a huge cultural difference between upper NorCal and Southern Oregon though
Further north...
crossing the Columbia, the biggest river in the region, also has one of only several interstate draw bridges in the US. Prepare to be stuck in traffic if you're remotely close to rush hour
No sales tax in OR means there are large malls immediately off the first OR exits. Likewise there isn't a single Best Buy in Vancouver because everyone drives across the river to dodge sales tax for big ticket items
The inspection station I pass by is still there, but it's been literal years since I've actually been stopped or even seen it manned. I don't make the trip regularly and have always been in a sedan, so maybe I've just been lucky. Though my guess is that funding cuts have hit them badly.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if my life trajectory went slightly differently if I discovered them back in 2002 as well.
Love Gunship, been a fan since their eponymous album (though no such track yet, haha) and I've been listening to Unicorn pretty regularly since its release.
I haven't heard of Your Inland Empire, but I like their sound from the track you linked. I'll have to check out more of them.
I don't listen to The Midnight a lot, but they are what immediately come to mind for retrowave with vocals.
Since we've only discussed artists with vocalists, I'm not going to go too deep into non-vocalist solo artists but I love darksynth, so I gotta give shout outs to Pertubator and Carpenter Brut who are the goats of the genre and have several tracks with featured vocalists. And a much more obscure darksynth artist without vocals I am going to recommend is Orax's Love Kills the Demon as it emotionally vibes closer to TBM than a lot of other things for me.
A bit more mainstream, Shiny Toy Guns has some similar energy to TBM, more so on their first and third albums, though I guess they've been on hiatus for 10+ years now.
Let me know if any of this tickle your fancy. I didn't pick out any real goth stuff, but I should have been asleep hours ago, ha
Oop, I am bad at checking replies.
Yeah, TBM is criminally underplayed. If they hadn't shown up on a Pandora station for me some 15 or so years ago, I don't know if or when I would have encountered them. Glad you're enjoying them! They have a really unique sound that scratches an itch in my brain that no one else really does.
I'd be happy to trade music recs as I'm big into retrowave and some goth as well.
This doesn't fit the prompt in a technical sense, but does so thematically:
The band originally known as Imagica changed their name due to overlap with another artist. For one week they went by Nothing and Nowhere (shared with their first album and a track that would appear on a later album) before settling on their current name, The Birthday Massacre. The Birthday Massacre was the original third track of the Nothing and Nowhere LP, but was renamed Happy Birthday during the band's final name change.
This was my thought too, but the UI doesn't look right.
Terminator 2 and Baldurs Gate 3.
A three act story where you jump forward or back in time could be interesting.
Though I'm not sure how much Terminators add to a D&D setting when there are already dopplegangers.
POP-CORN !
Yeah, it's under the bug for sure. It's funny because I struggled being unsure about the banana instead.
Man, the Red-lipped Batfish is weird. It looks like someone made it in the Spore Creature Creator.
The Tonkin Snub Nosed Monkey is cute. It's sad they're critically endangered.
It's been years since I watched a nature documentary and it's nice learning about animals I was unaware of before today.
I like this a lot.
The monster at the top reminds me of Randall from Monsters Inc.
I switched over to NewPipe a couple weeks back after consciously tolerating ads on the official mobile apps for years. This is what pushed me over the edge:
I was watching a 30 minute video a friend had shared and a (skippable) 4 minute ad played probably a little before the 10 minute mark. It was a variant of an ad I had seen before, but I've been interested in the product, so I let the ad play all the way through. But now for the rest of the video, all the ads I was getting were several minutes long and all were unskippable. The interval of actual video content became shorter as well, so I was effectively watching more ads than the content I was trying to view. I decided to finish the video just to experience how ridiculous it was. Immediately installed NewPipe afterwards.
I have a hard time thinking it wasn't a coincidence that the ads became unskippable partway through the video after watching one ad all the way through. Obviously, I can't say that for sure. But I sure as hell am not tolerating that ratio of ads to content. I feel guilty for not sending ad view pennies to the creators I enjoy, but this YouTube "experiment" made the platform unusable for me.
I have no experience agriculture patents, but couldn't Monsanto make it illegal for someone to modify "their product" without their explicit permission?
They don't really make the STI at all anymore. Supposedly Japan will see a 4-door with the STI badge later this year (Sport#), but it sounds like it's really just a manual WRX.
There's demand for sure, but Subaru really doesn't seem to care at this point ☹️
Have: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in moderately good repair.
Want: a stage 2 '05 Impreza WRX STi in good repair with an ethanol sensor and new tune to enable selectively running E85.
Hi from Interstellar on Android
And yet still cannot be bought with food stamps.
You'll hate me for this, but I semi-frequently write my extended no as nuuuuu to specifically target a rhymes-with-moo read.
That's very close to spider in Spanish, araña.
West Coast perspective:
Further north...
The inspection station I pass by is still there, but it's been literal years since I've actually been stopped or even seen it manned. I don't make the trip regularly and have always been in a sedan, so maybe I've just been lucky. Though my guess is that funding cuts have hit them badly.